Destruction can be beautiful, as this recent composite image from Chandra and Hubble shows us. Approximately 5,000 years ago, a massive star in the Large Magellanic Cloud destroyed itself, leaving us to gaze at a gorgeous remnant and learn a thing or two about the physics of a supernova.

This week, millions of Argentinians, their neighbors and foreign dignitaries gathered in Buenos Aires to celebrate their bicentennial with lavish parades festivals and performances. Collected here are recent scenes from Argentina as its citizens commemorate 200 years of eventful history.

It's almost difficult to believe after so many UFC events featuring so many different permutations of guys making mean faces on the fight posters, but UFC 114 marks the first time a modern UFC pay-per-view card is headlined by two African-American fighters.

An Army veteran and his wife are told they need to take down an American flag displayed in their apartment window. Managers at an Oshkosh apartment complex are even threatening to evict them over what the couple says is a simple patriotic display.

The outline of a woman's face is seen from high above near the village of Ahsen an der Lippe, in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany. The face is based upon a digital photo and is made from plants. Over the course of the next couple of years, the full extent of the image will become visible.

With the Democrats' control of both houses of Congress at stake this year, the White House has to make some difficult decisions about how and where to deploy President Obama for the midterm election campaigns.

If you think NFL's "coin-flip" overtime system is controversial, wait till you hear what they do in the world of competitive chess and how it decided the sport's championship on Monday. It left fans pissed: "I prefer co-champions rather than a decision based on a garbage game more suitable to hustlers in a park."

The critically-panned and commercially-unsuccessful video game iteration of Lost was declared non-canon by producers and focused on a character never seen on the show. In light of the program's ambiguous finale, has Lost: Via Domus found a place in the franchise's narrative arc?

On the one hand, this is a clever way to carry your iPad when you're out hitting the clubs on Friday night. On the other hand, there's something a little strange about seeing a good-looking woman wearing a "little black dress" with a huge pocket in the front of it. Australian iClothing team has created iPad clothing with really big pockets.

The head of Foxconn bowed deeply several times and apologized Wednesday for a spate of suicides at the factory that makes Apple iPods and iPhones, promising the electronics giant will try to stop more deaths.

First discussed in February of this year, and confirmed earlier this week, a documentary about the annual Comic-Con International in San Diego is about to go into production. There's a lot of potential material that should make it into the final cut, such as the fact that more comic books are sold there than at any other convention.

This year's 100 Most Creative People offers an idiosyncratic perspective on business. The selections reflect the breadth of new ideas and pursuits at play in our business landscape. From Lady Gaga, to HBO Documentary Films president Sheila Nevins, to futurist Ray Kurzweil, we can attest that creativity is alive and well in 2010.

Scientists across the globe have long hunted for a vaccine against malaria - a disease that claims roughly one million lives each year. But after decades of searching, the creation of a malaria vaccine is starting to look more and more likely.

Scientists have discovered capillaries have a unique method of expelling debris, such as blood clots, cholesterol or calcium plaque, that blocks the flow of essential nutrients to brain cells. The capillaries spit out the blockage by growing a membrane that envelopes the obstruction and then shoves it out of the blood vessel.

Federal authorities signaled a green light Wednesday for BP to proceed with a maneuver known as "top kill" to stop the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.BP is set to make a decision within the next few hours...

Americans are frustrated with nearly everyone in Washington - including President Obama, Congress, and the Democratic and Republican parties - and have become increasingly pessimistic about what the future holds, according to a new CBS News poll.Seven in ten Americans are dissatisfied with the way things are going in Washington, including ...

In video games and movies, fully functional bad ass body armor is actually pretty common. Some forms of armor offer protection from bullets, while other forms may be best used for annihilating enemies.